Neville Goddard on Joshua 5:4-5 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Joshua 5 in context

Scripture Focus

4And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: All the people that came out of Egypt, that were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt.

5Now all the people that came out were circumcised: but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, them they had not circumcised.

Joshua 5:4-5

Biblical Context

Joshua circumcises the generation that came out of Egypt to mark a covenant, because the older generation died in the wilderness; those born in the wilderness were not yet circumcised, signaling a distinction between old and new consciousness.

Neville's Inner Vision

Seen through the I AM lens, this is a mental rite rather than a physical ceremony. The Egyptians symbolize bondage thoughts; the wilderness-born are those still wearing the old skin of belief. The circumcision marks a decisive turning inward, separating the old self from the covenant of consciousness, which is the I AM present now. The dying of the prior generation represents the clearing away of fear-based identity, clearing the ground for a people ready to inhabit their promised state. The covenant is not tablets but the living awareness that you belong to God within, here and now. Thus the wilderness becomes memory, not fate; the circumcision is a revision, a felt shift, a commitment to act from wholeness rather than from lack. When you perceive yourself as already aligned with the covenant, you naturally enter your own land of promise through renewed seeing, not by striving but by belief in your true nature as I AM.

Practice This Now

Identify one bondage belief and revise it in your imagination as already severed from you; then feel the new consciousness arise and affirm, 'I AM that I AM, covenant-true now.'